Roemer, J.J. & Schultes, J.A. (1817), Systema Vegetabilium Edn. 16, 2: 154 [tax. nov.]

• Comment: No reference to Australia given by Roemer & Schultes. G.Bentham, Fl. Australia 7 (1878) 292 "an East Indian plant, is given by Boeckel. in Linnaea, xxxvi. 429, as also Australian on the authority of Sieber's specimens Agrostotheca, n. 24 ..."

Blake, S.T. (1947), Notes on Australian Cyperaceae, VII. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland 58(2): 42 [secondary reference]

• Text: "New for Australia;"

Kern, J.H. (1974), Cyperaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 7(3): 534 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Eleocharis retroflexa (Poir.) Urb. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2012), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Eleocharis retroflexa (Poir.) Urb. legitimate

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